Fly-By-Night


DateSettingTypePublishedI.U.C.
2000-10Known Space: Man-Kzin Wars NovellaAsimov's Science Fiction, October/November 2000
K.S. 32 (2660)


ReprintsCharactersNotes
Man-Kzin Wars IX;
Stars and Gods
Beowulf Shaeffer;
Fly-By-Night
Beowulf is hijacked in flight


Summary
Published in Asimovs October/November 2000. Following the events of "Procrustes," Beowulf Shaeffer finds himself onboard a passenger ship, the Odysseus, just as it is being overtaken by Kzinti pirates. Shaeffer is taken prisoner and develops an unusual alliance with a non-practicing Kzinti Telepath called Fly-by-Night and his octopus-like Jotoki slave, Paradoxical.